Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harry T. Levin, Babitt professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the final selection committee, said yesterday members of the appropriate doctoral departments at Harvard interview and rank the candidates for the fellowship. A committee of appointed Faculty members then makes the final decision...
...miners both take for granted a degree of conflict that does not exist in other U.S. industries. From the start, the 130 companies that belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators Association showed a determination to bludgeon the union into a contract that had little chance of ratification by the rank and file. In exchange for a 37% pay increase over a three-year period, the owners insisted on making the miners pay for part of their medical benefits and fining them for wildcat strikes. For reasons that are still obscure, U.M.W. President Arnold Miller went along with a settlement that...
...rank and file, however, remained skeptical. They assembled at their locals to hear the pact explained and to ask questions. Each miner was handed a copy of the contract in a 36-page booklet. No literary scholar is better at reading between the lines than a miner, who treats a contract as reverently as the Bible and even takes it underground in case there is a grievance. The more the miners read, the angrier many of them became...
Providence pulled off the upset of the night at Cornell's Lynah Rank, as they beat the highly-favored Big Red, 8-5. The Friars' Steve O'Neil sparked the come-from-behind win with three goals and two assists, including the tying and winning scores...
...pressure was now seriously coming to bear on the B.C.O.A. The mine owners, who had only reluctantly answered President Carter's initial plea for new negotiations after their deal with Miller collapsed, had feared such a shift all along. They sensed the U.M.W.'s perverse strength: since the rank and file would not necessarily follow their leader, logic dictated that the Government try to make the more organized opposing party bend toward settlement...